Over 200 million women become pregnant each year. Despite great progress during the past three decades, deaths during pregnancy and… [Read More]
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News & Commentary
Postpartum Haemorrhage: Cheap Lifesaver ‘Cuts Deaths by a Third’ (BBC)
A new study suggests that an affordable drug could reduce maternal deaths related to postpartum hemorrhage by a third. The… [Read More]
The Global Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Initiative: A Call for Collaboration and Action by 2030 (Lancet)
WHO and Jhpiego have launched the Global Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Initiative. to address maternal and neonatal mortality due to… [Read More]
Maternal Health Care is Disappearing in Rural America (Scientific American, 2017)
While an estimated 46 million people still live in rural America, obstetric wards in local hospitals are increasingly rare, raising… [Read More]
True Magnitude of Stillbirths and Maternal and Neonatal Deaths Underreported (WHO, 2017)
In continued efforts to improve maternal and neonatal health, WHO has launched 3 publications to help countries improve their data… [Read More]
Maternal Deaths Down in Afghanistan with Help from Community Workers (PBS NewsHour, 2014)
Afghanistan has reduced maternal mortality by two-thirds since 2000, due in large part to over 27,000 community volunteers. Epetko, Larissa…. [Read More]
Drug to Prevent Excessive Bleeding after Childbirth Could Save Thousands of Lives (Guardian, 2014)
The World Health Organization, in partnership with Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Merck, is initiating a clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa to… [Read More]
Fighting Maternal Mortality (The Daily Beast)
On April 4, 2014, as part of the Women in the World conference, a panel of speakers discussed the problem… [Read More]
Saving Mothers, Giving Life: New Year, New Results for Maternal Health (Huffington Post)
Acting U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Deborah von Zinkernagel describes the promising results of a new public/private partnership started in the… [Read More]
Light in Liberia (ABCnews)
Through the work of Dr. Laura Satchel and her nonprofit We Care Solar, mothers in Liberia are able to deliver… [Read More]
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